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16th November - 11th January 2025
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Winter Exhibition
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​Featured Artist​
Alan Cameron
​Our annual mixed Winter Exhibition features a vast and lively array of work from our wonderful artists, this year featuring select pieces from Alan Cameron.
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Alan is a Scottish artist whose main area of work ,apart from portraits, is the landscape and settlements of Scotland and Italy. This work is figurative and interpretative and seeks to capture the essential ingredients of his subjects, their form, texture, colour and temperature. The contrasts between these countries, their climate and character are expressed mainly in pastel.
Cameron is a graduate of Duncan Jordanstone College of Art and the University of Edinburgh. He had a residency at Mellerstain House, an exquisite Adam mansion in the Scottish Borders, where he focused on subjects on the estate and the surrounding landscape.
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18th January - 8th February 2025
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​Featured Artist​
Rebecca Patterson
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Rebecca graduated from Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen in 2009 with an Honours in Painting and again in 2010 with a Masters of Fine Art. We are delighted to welcome Rebecca to the gallery, with her body of work, 'Nocturne'.
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She describes her work as a "frenzy of material and processes, a direct representation of my mind and how I create".
Heavily inspired by the natural landscape of the North East of Scotland, Rebecca's work borders into the abstract and explores fleeting moments and feelings. Growing up on the Moray coast she has a subconscious pull towards the land and sea as well as the flora of the area, tied up in memories of walks and times exploring - living in a city now has her dreaming of wilderness, giving an appreciation to any time she can venture out and collect moments of raw natural energy and beauty.
Rebecca says: "This all filters through into my practice, a desire to create and to remember those feelings and experiences, they are completely symbiotic. I believe there is a real familiarity in my work, viewers too can feel the essence and the intimacy even if they have never been acquainted with this part of the World. I work organically and rhythmically in layers of mixed media. Pieces tell me what they want to be rather than me coming at them with preconceived ideas and plans, they materialise out of the ether and guide me to completion."
"The word nocturne comes from the Latin nocturnus, "belonging to the night." This is a good place to start when describing my latest body of work. I have always been fascinated by dusk and night, the light and the colours that it brings - or omits. It can come with such feeling, be it peace, loneliness, relief or dread to name but just a few, I have tried to capture different presentations in this work. Experiences of night are so personal and different. For me dusk and night bring hope, often calm but sometimes excitement too. It is a whole other world to what we experience in the day".
